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Giro’s New Road Clothing Line
Giro has just released their new cycling clothing line targeted at urban riders and road cyclists. The New Road collection brings a range of higher end apparel products to Giro’s product line. Polos to jerseys, undershorts to waterproof jackets. The coolest thing about this new product line is that everything is made locally (for…
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Picture of the Week 3.3.2013
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Wahoo Fitness RFLKT
Now here’s a neat concept. Build a device that is cheap to run, mounts easily to your bike and syncs with your iPhone to monitor your cycling activity. The Wahoo RFLKT reflects (get it?) the data from your iPhone onto the RFLKT’s screen so that you don’t have to find a mount for your…
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Washington State’s New Transportation Tax Plan
The Seattle Times reported last week about Washington State’s proposed transportation plan. In the proposal are the typical gas tax hikes and increased car tab fees (more details here). The increased taxes and fees would hopefully raise $10 billion dollars over 5 years to use towards highway improvements (many of which I think are needed).…
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Picture of the Week 2.24.2013
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BART To Allow More Bicycles
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is going to be allowing more bicycles on it’s system in a test run. During March 18-22, bikes will be allowed in BART stations and aboard all trains – where there’s room – all day and night. In the past, bikes have not been…
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That Feeling
While riding in to work this morning, I passed two other cyclists; a rarity during these colder days. The second commuter that I passed (I’m pretty sure it was his first time out this season) seemed to have an extra bounce in his pedal and even gave me a ding of his bell with the…
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Picture of the Week 2.17.2013
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Re:Cycling with Gabe Przygoda
Came across this cool video of a restoration project. Brought back good memories of my last restoration… Enjoy! Re:Cycling from Gabe Przygoda on Vimeo. Made by Gabe Przygoda BlindSimon.com This short documentary highlights the restoration of an old 1970’s ten speed bicycle. With new parts and paint, it’s been turned into a modern fixie (with…
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Oprah Chooses Giro Reverb for 2012
I’m sure that you’ve all heard about this by now, being keen followers of Oprah. The Mighty O has placed the Giro Reverb onto her list of favorite things for 2012. You all know the favorite things list. It includes such important items as the Scrabble App for the iPad and the Classic Sparkle Ugg Boots.…
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